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:github_url: https://git.door43.org/Door43/en_uhg/src/branch/master/content/front.rst
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.. _front:
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Unlocked Hebrew Grammar
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Introduction
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The Unlocked Hebrew Grammar (UHG) is a biblical Hebrew reference grammar
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based on the `morphologycodes <http://openscriptures.github.io/morphhb/parsing/HebrewMorphologyCodes.html>`__
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that appear in the `Open Scriptures HebrewBible <https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb>`__. It enables the
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global Church to gain the best possible understanding of the Hebrew
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grammar of the Old Testament.
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Rationale
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The rationale behind creating the first version of the UHG was to
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provide an openly licensed and up to date reference grammar for direct
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use with the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible. Such a grammar may be used in
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software to provide students and translators of Scripture with up to
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date and accurate descriptions of Hebrew grammar on an as needed basis.
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Because the articles are directly patterned after the morphological
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categories of the OSHB, it is easy for software to link directly to
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them.
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Methodology
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A team of scholars and technicians worked together to create and revise
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each of the articles in the UHG over the course of a year and a half.
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The creation process included individuals drafting glossary and article
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entries for each grammatical topic and then a series of peer reviews of
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each. Several meetings were held to help standardize the format of the
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articles and to discuss difficult issues as they arose.
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The differentiation between the glossary entries and the articles is
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similar to the approach of many Wikipedia articles. The glossary entry
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is a one or two sentence summary of the grammatical topic, while the
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article goes into much more detail and includes several examples. This
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has the effect of being useful in a pop up or tooltip in software
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applications, which may provide immediate access to the glossary in the
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pop up and then link to the full article.
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A unique design goal was to make the language of the grammar as simple
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as possible so that the resource can more easily be translated into the
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`Gateway Languages <https://unfoldingword.org/gateway/>`__ of the world.
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This should also have the effect of rendering the grammar accessible to
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people of varied educational backgrounds and varied proficiency in the
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English language.
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The work was completed using an online content creation and translation
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platform, the `Door43 Content Service <https://git.door43.org>`__.
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Because of this, all the work is under revision control, you can go back
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and see the `commithistory <https://git.door43.org/Door43/en_uhg/commits/branch/master>`__
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if you'd like (it totals over 2500 commits at the time of writing).
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Future
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We plan to extend the UHG, in conjunction with the Unlocked Hebrew
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Bible, to cover higher level syntactic and semantic information. Rather
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than replacing the existing form-centric morphology of the OSHB, we
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would add another parsing layer on top of it that focuses on the
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function of the words and phrases. This will generate a new list of
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categories that will need explanations in the UHG. Some examples of new
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categories are discourse markers, specific uses of imperfect forms,
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context sensitive gender identification and the like.
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A further extension may be to take the raw material from this work and
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augment and format it to be useful as a teaching grammar. Again, the
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idea here would be to provide a resource that could easily be translated
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and adapted into other Gateway Languages.
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If either of these ideas intrigue you, let us know at
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https://unfoldingword.org/contact/, we'd love to have your involvement!
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Contributors
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This resource was designed by the `unfoldingWordProject <https://unfoldingword.org/>`__ and built by the `Door43 WorldMissions Community <https://door43.org/>`__. At least the following
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people were instrumental in the creation of the UHG:
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- Bram van den Heuvel (BA Theology, Utrecht University; MA Biblical
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Studies, Utrecht University / University of Amsterdam; Ph.D.
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Candidate Old Testament, Evangelische Theologische Faculteit)
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- Chapel Presson (BA Pre-Seminary Studies/Bible, Central Bible College;
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MDiv, Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary)
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- Daniel Bowman (BA Ancient Languages, Cornerstone University; MDiv,
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Grand Rapids Theological Seminary)
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- Ethan Knapp
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- Joel D. Ruark (M.A.Th. Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary; Th.M.
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Stellenbosch University; Ph.D. Candidate in Old Testament Studies,
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Stellenbosch University)
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- Jesse Griffin (BA Biblical Studies, Liberty University; MA Biblical
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Languages, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary)
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- Kenny E. Hilliard III (BA Christian Studies, North Greenville
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University; MDiv Christian Ministry: Biblical Languages, Southeastern
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Baptist Theological Seminary; PHD Candidate Biblical Studies: Old
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Testament, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary)
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- Perry Oakes (BA Biblical Studies, Taylor University; MA Theology,
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Fuller Seminary; MA Linguistics, University of Texas at Arlington;
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PhD Old Testament, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary)
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- Stephen J. Andrews (BA Carson-Newman; M.Div. Eastern Baptist
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Theological Seminary; Th.M. Southeastern Baptist Theological
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Seminary; Ph.D. Hebrew Union College)
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